My build progress

So dope! Great module for not needing any special parts.

What’s causing the little stutters on your snare?

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I finally took some time to work on my case… and to post it there!

I made a panel to hide the power supply (I think I will add some voltmeters in the future). It also has USB ports, for the beatstep!


I bought a mitre saw and I tried it by making a frame for my mixing table:

The whole case:

It’s starting to look like something useful!

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“Nice shelving system.”

“No, that’s my modular case.”

“It is? Then where are you going to put all this stuff once it’s full of modules?”

“Uh…” :laughing:

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Some friends already told me that :laughing:
And uh, that’s another issue for another time! ;p

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Let me know when you’ve figured it out. Asking for a friend.

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Thinking of it, I still have some room left up to the ceiling…

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“write” with the beatstep pro

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I’ve often wondered what the JB in jbsystems stands for. Do you know?

Good question! I have no idea… It seems to have a lot of “JB” in the music industry tho. Maybe the creator’s initials ?

Added a back panel to the B914:

with an amp for every channel:

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The snares in the beat also flashed me roughly !!! Can you explain to me what this “write” on Beatstep Pro is? Do you mean “roll” on the touch strip?

And someone else who bought the black Beatstep Pro because he thought “Cool there are 14 patchcables included, plus everyone else has a white one so I’ll do it differently” - right? :wink:

ahah yeah kinda! It was a bit cheaper on LBC (~french craigslist) and black is cool!

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by write (i think like we write some music on paper / to compose)
i have program it, i make a sequence with Kicks,snare,hit on the drum pad of the Beatstep P, no roll in live with tactil pad.

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Now I have 17 new untested modules without case.
I just tested my VCO: it works well !
The FX100 (with the PT2399 time mod): it works too!
everything is going well I stop on a good note for today :slightly_smiling_face:

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@Dud is the wisest of us all

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I decided I needed an oscillator for my workbench so I built this:


from an LFO design; socketed integrating cap, right now 2.2 nF for audio frequency.

I made a few dumb mistakes I had to unsolder. I dare not show you the underside because I don’t want you losing your breakfast. Compounding the difficulty is that this stripboard is something I got on AliExpress (WHAT WAS I THINKING??) and it is garbage. Copper peels right off if you look at if funny. I’ve finally had enough of it and have thrown the rest of the lot in the garbage. I have very little confidence in the durability of this thing but we’ll see. Anyway, for now it works.

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I know how something that isn’t working gets on my nerves and pisses me off for the rest of the day. I have no wood anyway, so I have time, and there I had satisfaction and I’m just going to enjoy it :yum:

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Fish that pi$h out of the garbage and make a crackle synth!!

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I was also thinking having a full “voice” for the bench would be useful for testing other modules.
The simplest: VCO, VCF, VCA, EG, LFO, (Mixer) and Output I can find.
With 3.5mm jacks (OMG! but the goal is to use the less amount of space, and I have a lot of adapters to 1.4") and normaled to a classic “voice”.
This way you just “replace” one of the “modules/functions” with, or insert between them, the one under test.
And some “keyboard” (A nano with a few buttons which generates some predefined voltages+gate and maybe a melody…).
This can also be used to test suspicious ICs ('072, '074, 13700, etc…) !

Probably a “paper pcbboard”… they are really crappy :slight_smile: I have some too, lying somewhere…
Holes aren’t aligned, sometimes just on the very edge of the copper strips, and not all of the same size…

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